Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1917. The Trias of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 73(3):165-246
Belongs to Anodontophora according to C. T. Trechmann 1917
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites griesbachi, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Myacites faba, Myacites obtusus, Myacites radiatus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites (Pleuromya), Myacites baconicus, Myacites depressus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites grandis, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora telleri, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora angulata, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora recta, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora isocardioides
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otamita Stream (Bed "C"), which is in a Carnian marine shale in New Zealand
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of New Zealand (1 collection), Peru (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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